- Shared the Schweitzer Chair at Fordham University with Marshall McLuhan.
- In 1945, he bought his first Webcor wire recorder and began to record the people and sounds around him, a collection that resulted in nineteen phonograph albums for Folkways and Columbia Records.
- Taught at Harvard University's School of Public Health, New York University, Columbia and Emerson College. However, he suffered from agoraphobia and relied on technology to teach from home. He delivered all out-of-town talks remotely, and gave presentations on six of the seven continents.
- Created the media campaigns of over 200 political candidates, including the 1976 presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter, the 1964 Johnson presidential election, and the campaigns of Abraham E. Ribicoff, Daniel Moynihan), Tom Foley, Mike Gravel, Ted Kennedy, Tom Lantos, and Andrew Young.
- In 1964, he created one of the most effective and famous presidential ads ever produced -- the "Daisy Ad" -- to highlight the dangers of nuclear arms. The spot featured a little girl counting as she removed the petals of a daisy. The scene then changed into a countdown to an atomic blast. President Lyndon B. Johnson then voiced over with the line, "We must either love each other, or we must die" - a paraphrase of a famous W.H. Auden poem written to mark the start of World War II. Though the ad ran only once, it has been credited with ushering in an era of negative political ads.
- Suffered from agoraphobia.
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